Trump Is Robbing You to Pay for His Dumb War
Not content with launching a costly and disastrous war on Iran, Trump has unveiled a new plan to pay for it by further slashing domestic programs that keep Americans economically afloat. His new 2027 budget document is effectively a political suicide note.
The Trump administration is so committed to the project of endlessly bombing random countries that they’ll happily jack up American prices, destroy public services, and steer headfirst into political oblivion in order to keep doing it. (Celal Gunes / Anadolu via Getty Images)
With his war on Iran, Donald Trump has already landed a quadruple axel of political self-destruction: notching the most unpopular US war effort in modern history, splitting his own political coalition, seeing his approval rating dip below Joe Biden’s, and, for the first time, falling underwater with white working-class voters.
Trump is peering over the edge of an electoral cliff come November, with the likely possibility that he drags the country and world into a completely avoidable and self-made economic crisis before then, all as the public seethes over his neglect of their core concern of affordability. It’s hard to see how the president could make this any worse for himself — but his crack team has found a way to pull it off.
The Trump administration’s genius next move? Make even deeper cuts to domestic programs to funnel even more obscene amounts of taxpayer money into this idiotic war.
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